Airborne/Spaceborne Radar: Panel Report

Mobile radar platforms can provide unique observations of geophysical phenomena for scientific research and for operational applications such as reconnaissance and flight safety. The advantages of an airborne or spaceborne radar are obvious; the radars provide 1) observations where it is often impractical or too costly to place a ground-based radar (e. g., over the oceans or mountains), 2) surveillance over a large area or over a long time period when the system of interest is moving, 3) the ability to adjust viewing angles to minimize uncertainties due to viewing geometry, for example, along a dual-Doppler baseline; and 4) measurements to complement coincident observations from other remote and in situ sensors.